The jury in the trial of rock star Ian Watkin's former lover Joanne Mjadzelics has been told the court will accept a majority verdict on which at least 10 of them agree.

Mjadzelics has been accused of child sex abuse image offences.

She denies illegally possessing such images and says she was only using it to trap the singer and stop him committing offences.

On Tuesday afternoon, the 11 members of the jury had been asked if they had agreed a unanimous verdict, and confirmed they had not.

They have since retired to continue their deliberations.

During the trial, the court heard Mjadzelics talked to Watkins about kidnapping, raping and even killing a child as they filmed themselves having sex.

In her summing up, Judge Eleri Rees said that Mjadzelics, 39, claimed to have obtained the images “in order to trap Watkins to have evidence on him to carry out justice”.

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She said there were situations where being in possession of indecent images of children was not a crime, citing an example of a police officer carrying out an investigation into sex offending.

“The defence is not confined to police officers but covers others involved in fighting crime.

“What were her motives because they are in dispute? It’s for you to consider if she had a legitimate reason based on the facts of the case.”

'I did all I could to save that baby'

Mjadzelics said that in 2007 she had been totally in love with Watkins after contact online led to meetings in hotel rooms in the UK and in Los Angeles.

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But she said that when she discovered his interest in children and mothers with babies, she had wanted only to expose him to the authorities.

Mjadzelics alleges that police in South Wales and in South Yorkshire, where she lives at Thorne Road in Doncaster, had failed to take her complaints about Watkins seriously for four years after she first went to them and the child protection agencies in 2008 and that she felt she had to act.

“I did all I could to save that baby. I told police a baby was going to be raped”, she said.

During the trial, her motivation was questioned by prosecuting counsel James Davies.

Mjadzelics is accused of being jealous

He suggested that online messages she sent to Watkins in which she refers to one female as a “washed up groupie” and tells him “You took the life I was promised and had it with others” showed her true feelings.

“You were jealous”, he told her.

Mr Davies read out long extracts of her online conversations with Watkins, which had resumed after a break in communications between them, in which methods of abuse were discussed in great detail.

“You fed his perverted sexual appetite for years,” he alleged.

Mjadzelics replied: “I was not in contact with him when he began [abusing] children”.

The prosecutor asked if, because of her sex chat, she felt any responsibility for what happened before Watkins eventually admitted a series of offences including the attempted rape of a baby.

The defendant told him: “He [Watkins] is to blame and anyone else who also abused children is to blame and the police are guilty of incompetence.”

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Questioned again by her barrister Michael Wolkind QC, she said she had asked the police to take her laptop and look at the images she had been sent by Watkins and had given them her password.

She confirmed South Wales Police officers had thanked her for her efforts, when Watkins, of Merthyr Road, Pontypridd, was in court pleading guilty.

She said the online chat and the sex video, in which they discuss the abuse of children while in bed in a hotel room, was all an act.

“I was playing him along - lying to him - telling him I loved him - telling him what he wanted to hear.

“Dirty talk, filthy talk, whatever he wanted to hear, just to trap him”, she has told the court.

Mjadzelics was arrested in January 2013 as part of Operation Globe - a worldwide investigation into Watkins’ paedophile activities.

Mjadzelics accepts she was in possession of four indecent images of children, had sent an indecent image of a child and had twice encouraged Watkins to send her an image of child rape but said she had a legitimate reason for keeping the images.

She denies four charges of possessing indecent images of children, two charges of distributing indecent images of children and one charge of encouraging Watkins to send her an indecent image of a child, which are alleged to have taken place between May and September 2011.